Jesse Minter: 10/26/26

SPEAKER_1 (0:03)

Welcome into the Ravens Press Pass Podcast. It is Monday, October 26 Today, we had a chance to hear from head coach Jesse Minter, as the Ravens are sitting at four and three on the season following Sunday's loss to the Bengals. Here's what coach Minter had to say.

Jesse Minter (0:17)

All right. Again, I think yesterday, disappointed in the results of the game, tell the two halves, disappointed in how we played in the second half.

But told the team today, we control where we go from here. I feel like it's kind of one of those points in the season, where you make a decision of the type of team you want to be. I feel like we have a ten-game season that we're in a good spot. We're not in a great spot. We're at an okay spot with our record being what it is, to still have a lot of control over what happens to us in the next ten games, starting with obviously this one and then two in the short week.

So it's about our ability to respond to what's happened to us, to get better, to chase improvement as we always try to do, and then to attack this thing. So I think games can be trends if you let them be, or they can be a one-off if you let it be. And so it's our responsibility to make sure like a half like that is more of a one-off, you know, from a total, the way the half went perspective. And I'll go from there. So, questions?

SPEAKER_3 (1:34)

Jesse, where's the optimism level as far as Lamar can be able to play in Buffalo?

Jesse Minter (1:40)

Yeah, I think, you know, again, Lamar is working his butt off to be back and be out there.

I think he was, you know, was able to get in a little bit of work, obviously, towards the end of last week. And so, I think he'll be in a decent spot, but we'll know a lot more on Wednesday.

SPEAKER_1 (1:59)

Jesse, you guys downgraded him on Saturday.

SPEAKER_4 (2:01)

That's typically not something you see too often, unless it's a road team and an injured player doesn't travel. The CBS broadcast mentioned that he woke up Saturday with some swelling in his ankle.

Can you confirm that? Is that what led to just shutting it down, at least for Sunday?

Jesse Minter (2:18)

No, I'm not going to speak really on the details of anybody's injury.

So, that's... Look, if he's able to play, that's healthy enough to play and play the way that, you know, obviously we feel like he needs to play, then he will play.

SPEAKER_5 (2:35)

Jesse, not specifically about the injury, but it was described as you guys being shocked that he was unable to play.

SPEAKER_1 (2:40)

Is that a mischaracterization, would you say?

Jesse Minter (2:43)

I would say a little bit, but again, we kind of had Saturday, you know, that we, you know, got a little bit of work in on Friday, come in Saturday and feel it out, see where it's at, and see, you know, how it's going, how it's feeling, how it responded, and then what happened happened.

SPEAKER_6 (3:07)

Jesse, sort of following up on what you said after the game yesterday, the momentum team, I think, how do you, how do you guys take that on this week? I mean, you know, what's the day to day to sort of make sure that's not defining characters?

Jesse Minter (3:23)

Yeah, that's, that's a great question. You know, again, it just goes to being able to have tough conversations and talking through things and being extremely process oriented in everything that we do. And when you're process oriented and you do things a certain way and you operate a certain way, that allows you to, to me, play with the level of focus and a level of consistency that, that sort of alleviate yourself from some of the external factors.

And so that's, that's really our main focus. And, you know, we got, it was told like we have a talented team, right? We have guys that have, you know, you, you, you hear the pregame announcements of who's starting and it's Pro Bowl, this, this, this, that, and the other.

And so we know that we have a capable team. We've even played like that in a good amount of spurts this year. But there's a level of consistency that we haven't found yet, that we're searching for it and some of it is like, you know, ups and downs and things like that. So it's just something to me, constant that you're working through, that you're talking through. You don't want to make it a broken record, that you're always talking about it, but I do think you have to own things that happen. And that's one of those things we have to own.